It’s the year’s final quarter, and your Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) is struggling with aged accounts receivable (AR) from months earlier. The services were provided, and the patients were cared for, yet a substantial portion of your revenue remains tied up in accounts receivable. Your f...
It mentions that the completion of admission is required for Medicare billing for inpatient and outpatient hospital visits, home health care encounters, and inpatient skilled nursing facility (SNF) visits. It states that the source of admission is especially important to patients transferred to ...
Axxess Hospice now enables users to track and bill room and board claims for facility-based hospice patients. By seamlessly tracking claim creation and rates for room and board, agencies can streamline billing operations and optimize vendor relationships to gain referrals and grow business. To complet...
Interventions for RVOT dysfunction often require numerous repeat open heart procedures for patients who live into adulthood. Treatment options for pulmonary stenosis are open surgery with valve replacement, balloon dilatation, or percutaneous stenting.1 Interventions for pulmonary regurgitation are primarily su...
“It takes a fair amount of time for the physician to earn that additional 15%,” he notes. “If it’s not clinically necessary, it makes more financial sense for physicians to see new patients of their own instead of doing several split visits. We don’t count on split visits for a...
Finalizes revisions to the definition of group therapy under the SNF PPS, to state qualified rehabilitation therapist or therapy assistant treating two to six patients at the same time who are performing the same or similar activities. Finalizes implementation of a subregulatory process for updating...
Hospices with inpatient units provided GIP to 35% of beneficiaries, compared with 12% for hospices without inpatient units. This finding is not surprising given that, among other reasons, hospices with inpatient units are far more likely to receive referrals of hospice-eligible patients who are ...
The federal- and state-sponsored health insurance program for the medically indigent is called: Medicaid. The health insurance model that offers the most flexibility for patients is: traditional health insurance. The health insurance mode that offers the least flexibility for patients is: health mainte...
Follow this link for more information on Good Faith Estimates and No Surprise Billing. We do everything possible to ensure you will be getting the maximum benefit from your insurance policy, but it is always advisable for patients to educate themselves about their insurance company benefits and ...
Billing for the vaccine, administration To bill Medicare for COVID-19 vaccine shot administration, providers can either submit a single claim or via roster billing for multiple patients, CMSsays. Providers must administer shots to at least five patients on the same date of service...